I am having trouble reconciling a 30 minute drive with a stranger in the car. Where did Kim go, who did she talk to?
And why would a prostitute who has not paid back one dime of her obligation be so willing to dump precious in the lap of the cops?
Reading the 911 transcripts, she seemed too eager to tell "what happened."
And it might not have been a setup from the beginning. But at some point someone who wanted Duke taken down decided this was the time to do it.
Kim arrived at Kroger well before the 1:22 call, I believe.
She must have been there for at least a few minutes talking to the guard and with the guard trying to talk to Crystal before the call.
I think I read somewhere that Kim actually arrived at Kroger around 1:00.
I think Kim called various escort services trying to figure out where the accuser lived. Maybe she drove to a wrong address. I don't know what they did but I doubt they concocted a story. Kim's goal was to get rid of the accuser and she even had the police called to do it. She then said what she had to in order to get herself out of the situation. She then left. She didn't care what the cops did with the accuser.
The cops who initially saw Precious did not believe her story. That seems clear to me. Someone at Duke was informed that the entire thing would blow over and one of the reasons was that Precious had no credibility. They probably knew who she was if she's had this many encounters with the police. They didn't push to get a search warrant or do anything. I don't think they believed her at all.
I think the set-up, if you want to call it that, started when someone else came into the picture and decided to push this case. Nifong had a political motive. Gottlieb clearly hates Dukies. I think they're the ones who set this up. I don't think Kim and Crystal set it up themselves.